"Disappointing" attendances

[GortonBlue62]

TBF PB, Arsenal have always had the most expensive season tickets and match tickets.

Didn't they use to charge away fans £65?

Can you imagine any away fan paying that now after a few seasons of paying £30? Not a chance in hell! If that price for an away ticket was ever reintroduced, away ends would be half empty or empty.

I for one would never pay £65 again for an away ticket.

Had that very discussion on the way back from Sheffield United.

The £30 cap has saved away fans a fortune over the last few years and I'm not sure I'd go back to paying full whack.

In the season before the cap was introduced Arsenal at £64 was the most expensive for a PL game.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Tickets in the lower and middle tiers have now gone and tickets are selling in ES3 and CB3. This game is likely to be close to a sellout.



The attendance at the Swamp was 67k. They let in between 73k and 74k for midweek games these days I think. The game at OT was a bit over 6k short of capacity but I’m not sure every rag who bought a ticket turned up.

We look to have shifted approximately 52k tickets (based on the planner) and have 2k or a bit more to sell.

Thanks Tim.73 k seem a bit imaginative
We will get flak

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Thanks Tim.73 k seem a bit imaginative
We will get flak

They didn’t get that many. That was the capacity

 

[M18CTID]

Did he? Was it a post match interview, a piece in a paper or somewhere else where he brought it up?

I'm going off what many have said on here - that Pep brought it up first in the post match presser. I could be wrong of course as it's not always wise to believe what others say on here but the sheer numbers backing that up gave me the impression that that's what happened

 

[Rolee]

I'm going off what many have said on here - that Pep brought it up first in the post match presser. I could be wrong of course as it's not always wise to believe what others say on here but the sheer numbers backing that up gave me the impression that that's what happened

It's based on this edited piece. The interview had obviously already started but we don't get to hear the interviewer's first question.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51258522

It seemed rather convenient to me that Pep should bring up exactly what the commentators had been discussing with around 5 minutes left in the game.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Flicked through an old programme today from 1978, and there couldn't have been a more apt piece by Bernard Halford titled " never knock the fans". This paragraph sums it up for me:

I believe that in no way can a club ever have a go at it's supporters. It is their sole right to either come and watch you... or stay at home if they prefer. It's their money and they can do what they like with it. That is why you have to cultivate your fans... never knock them.

This was after we'd been slated for only having 27'000 for a home European game against Standard Liege.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

What a pathetic, childish, thoughtless stupid fucking question. I don't know why I'm even dignifying it with an answer but just on the off chance you're not a complete cock, I will.

I want less games for the first team squad, so they can actually get the rest and recovery to be able to compete against the likes of Real Madrid in the Champions League with players who aren't fucked physically and mentally due to the scheduling of fixtures and the quantity of fixtures. We're a better team in my opinion but players like Sterling are burnt out, he's played constantly for 3-4 years without a sustained period of rest, just like De Bruyne, it's only a matter of time before he gets an injury. At best it's clearly beginning to have an impact on his form.

On the other side of that, I want competition in the domestic cups, ideally with other teams getting better so we don't have to resort to making it competitive ourselves. Livarpool throw the towel in at the first opportunity, outside of them, I don't think anybody else can compete at the moment. Competition (internal or external) is the only way anyone can ever improve, whether it's the young academy lads or squad players. If we get beat, we learn and develop, if we win 5-0, no one is learning anything.

the fact you've resulted to swearing, and trying to throw a few digs in there rests my case with morons like you.

A keyboard warrior I See?

 

[stonerblue]

It's based on this edited piece. The interview had obviously already started but we don't get to hear the interviewer's first question.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51258522

It seemed rather convenient to me that Pep should bring up exactly what the commentators had been discussing with around 5 minutes left in the game.

Thanks.
So going off that, he's asked a question we don't get to hear and replies honestly. WTF is wrong with that?

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

TBF PB, Arsenal have always had the most expensive season tickets and match tickets.

Didn't they use to charge away fans £65?

Can you imagine any away fan paying that now after a few seasons of paying £30? Not a chance in hell! If that price for an away ticket was ever reintroduced, away ends would be half empty or empty.

I for one would never pay £65 again for an away ticket.

its all well away fans having tickets capped at £30. We should have home tickets capped aswell.

The clubs no longer need the ticket revenue as their main income source

 

[stonerblue]

I'm going off what many have said on here - that Pep brought it up first in the post match presser. I could be wrong of course as it's not always wise to believe what others say on here but the sheer numbers backing that up gave me the impression that that's what happened

Then i'm sorry too say but you back up my original post. You and others seem to have half a story and run with it to slag off the manager (not sure you have but plenty are).